Okay after reviewing a few posts in the archives of PFO and hearing some of the responces to a few of the hands I've posted here with regard to starting hands I'm considering a few things. Granted this isn't rocket science stuff here but here's my thinking...I have almost 15K hands in PT from playing the pennies on stars(everybody knows what the games are like). Up untill the last 3-4000 hands I was doing pretty good averaging in the low to mid 20's as far as BB/100 and was up a little over $100. Due to the rather unusual amont of bad beats and suck outs the last few 1000 hands (which dropped me down to between 16-18 BB/100) I decided to give the .05/.10 NL a shot. Seems to be only slightly tighter that the pennies where people will actually fold a little more to a PF raise and you'll be against 3 or so callers even an occasional everyone folds as opposed to 6 callers regardless of what you do at the pennies.
So here's my thoughts, review the starting hands I have for the pennies and play only the staring hands that have a fairly decent amount ot $ won and a win rate of about 30% or better to see at least a cheap flop at the .05/.10 level. I've noticed that although say AJo is a somewhat okay starting hand I've lost a fair amount of $ with it for the stakes I've been playing so I'm dropping it along with A,10. Either that or I'm just considering playing Axs (just for the flush potential) and nothing but high suited connectors, AQ or better, and pocket 7's or better. PT has me as a SLAA with a rating system using the rules that I found in a link the Deme posted a while back. Like I said it's not rocket science and maybe something I should do anyway what do you guys think of this as a general gudeline?

P.S. My other thought was to stay where I'm at untill I've made $300 (which going off the numers looks to be staying here for somewhere around 30K hands before moving up to the .05/.10 to satisfy the BB X 3000 guideline.

I find that with very loose tables you're pretty much always getting the odds to go set hunting with a PP, but hey... if you go too far with them when you miss they turn to losers real quick.

Your basic strategy is to play tight with solid values and to stay within your bankroll? Sounds good to me Wish I could follow it lol

Originally Posted by Eclipse86

well heres a good strategy that i use to play at 5c/10c games to build my bankroll, seems to work very well for me:


- raise 6-6.5x BB preflop with AK, AQ, JJ, QQ, KK, AA (lower the raise if u hold KK AA and u want callers).. this way u wont get people playing bs against you. For example u raise with AK some guy calls with J 10, and chases a straight draw on the flop when u flop TPTK only to bust you on the turn/river - if u raise it more preflop the chances of this happening are less.

You WANT people calling and chasing against you. Besides that, the bigger you make the pot pre-flop, the harder it is to get away from it when your opponent flops a set against you... I understand that raising to keep your opponents from getting cheap looks to beat you is the point, but if they still want to call (and make a mistake in doing so, thereby increasing my equity), then that's completly fine by me